Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 345: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the expenditure to date on various projects in County Kildare funded by his Department; the source of such funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18394/06]

Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 351: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if closing dates for grant aid available from his Department have been reached in respect of 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18400/06]

Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 345 and 351 together.

I refer the Deputy to my replies to Questions Nos. 114 of 19 May 2005; 221 of 26 October 2005 and 285, 286 and 289 of 8 February 2006. As the Deputy will be aware my Department was established on 6 June 2002. Details of the expenditure to date on various projects in County Kildare funded by my Department are set out in the following appendix.

My Department's schemes have varying arrangements regarding closing dates, details of which are on my Department's websitewww.pobail.ie. If the Deputy would like information in relation to a particular scheme, I would be glad to provide details to him.

The RAPID Leverage Fund was initiated in 2004. The above figures represent this Departments allocation to the Athy RAPID area. The Local Authority Housing Estate Enhancement, Playground, Traffic Measures and Health Sector Co-fund schemes receive matching funding from other Departments.

Under the RAPID Programme, the Athy Area Implementation Team (AIT) received support budget funding. Total allocation under the support and communications budget: 2002 — €14,500; 2003 — €9,600; 2004 — €9,200; 2005 — €12,500.

Community Development Programme

The following table outlines funding under the Community Development Programme to Projects in Kildare. The 2002 to 2005 columns represents funding currently committed for 2006.

Details of funding approved under the Scheme of Community Support for Older People (CSOP) and the Programme of Grants for Locally Based Community & Voluntary Groups are available on my Department's website at www.pobail.ie.

LEADER Programmes

The following is the expenditure to end April 2006 on the LEADER Programmes in County Kildare: LEADER + €2,629,823 has been paid out from an allocation of €3,887,400 for the period 2000-2006. Area Based Rural Development Initiative €606,632 has been paid out from an allocation of €1,227,600 for the period 2000-2006.

Dormant Accounts Fund

Under the initial round of funding, administered on behalf of the Dormant Accounts Fund Disbursements Board by Pobal (formerly known as Area Development Management Ltd), a total of twelve applications from organisations based in County Kildare were approved for funding of over €2.7 million in 2005. A breakdown of these approved projects is provided in the table below. No funding has yet been approved for projects in 2006.

Community Services Programme

This Department through its Community Services Programme administered by POBAL, currently funds 5 Projects in County Kildare and expenditure in 2006 is expected to be €565,858. This Programme transferred from Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment on 1st January 2006. It was previously called the Social Economy Programme and was administered by FÁS.